A Memphis man has not been charged after police say he shot and killed two burglars who had been ransacking his home. The man said he came home to find two people in his home who shot at his friend, and shot both with an AK-47 rifle. Fox 13 Broadcast/Screenshot

A Memphis man has not been charged after police say he shot and killed two burglars who had been ransacking his home. The man said he came home to find two people in his home who shot at his friend, and shot both with an AK-47 rifle. Fox 13 Broadcast/Screenshot

A Memphis, Tenn., man's Friday night turned gruesome when he and a family friend came home to find two gunmen rummaging through the house.

"I see my house being ransacked and the dog was still going hysterical in the cage," the homeowner, who was not identified over fears for his safety, told WMC. That's when one of the two intruders noticed the homeowner and his friend and said "Hey, they are here," the homeowner told the station.

“He picked up his weapon, turned around and points them at me,” the homeowner told the Fox 13. “Two pistols.”

One of the guns jammed, however, and the intruders ran toward the back of the house, the man told WATN. By this point his friend had also run out of the home, and the intruders had gotten at least one weapon to work and were firing at the friend, the man told the station.

When officials arrived, both 28-year-old Azell Witherspoon and 17-year-old Demond Robinson were pronounced dead, according to the Commercial Appeal. Police detained the homeowner but concluded that the shooting was in self-defense and did not press charges, according to the paper.

"I was just fast, rational thinking," he told the station. "It was them or it was me, and unfortunately they was at the wrong place at the wrong time."

It was only part of a bloody weekend for Memphis. Nine people were shot and four killed in total over 31 hours in the city, the Commercial Appeal reported.

Police are investigating an armed robbery of a convenience store in Little Haiti. According to police, two robbers, one of them armed with an AK-47, the other armed with a handgun, approached the store clerks and demanded from inside the register.